Hello,
I can't tell you anymore about Malargue. I left there Tuesday at 1 in the morning. I am now in the zone Valle de Uco. It's in between Mendoza and San Rafael. My area is called La Consulta, and my comp is Elder Drennan, he has 2 transfers. I also found out when I got here that I'm the district leader. It's my first time, and I'm not too sure what to do, but I am learning. The area is super pretty and it's smaller than Malargue. The city is really clean, and nice. I told my comp it looks like it could be in the states. On the outskirts of the city there are big fincas, or grape vineyards and every once in a while there is a big winery. The huge Andes Mountains are really close. They are very jagged and snow capped. It's warmer here than it was in Malargue. The mornings and at night before getting to the pench it's pretty cold. We have a giant old two story house that is our church building, but once again our assistences or people we have in church is like 20 or 30 and there are about 300 and more members in the area. We eat with an inactive family named Popik. His grandpa was in the Ukraine. He went to England I think, and then got on a ship which he thought was going to the US. Turns out it went to Brazil, so now he lives in Argentina. He speaks a bit of English, supposedly he was president of the rama once, but now he's inactive. We have a few people we are working with in the area. Janina, Analia and Brandon. They are the ones that from what I can see are the most promising. So there is a lot of tracting to do. I don't think it's possible to get rid of tracting down here. It's what we do most of the day.
Oh, so I'm also a counselor in the rama. We help the president handle the tithing. I was sitting at the table to do the sacrament. I did the sacrament. and then the president handed me a letter that said. ¨"you need to introduce yourself and talk about the obra misional, you have 15 min" so luckily I had a small talk on the obra missional in my backpack, so I spoke and added some parts to my talk. It sure was exciting.
We got into a house and taught a guy a great lesson on the plan of salvation. He seemed really interested, and we put a baptisimal fecha with him. He told us the next day (Sunday) to come and get him for church, so we did, and no one answered. We started walking away from the house, and then some drunk people came up to us and started telling us how good the wine here is and told me to drink some. Then behind the drunk guy I saw the guy who we had the great lesson with stick his head out the door. So I went towards the door and said hey, and then he closed the door and didnt answer it. We kind of deal with stuff like that here. People just don't turn out to be how they seem a lot of the time.
I'm glad to hear that Steve got home safe. It sounds like you guys will have a lot of fun at the wedding and in California. I went to the Six Flags in Ohio and it was way fun. That was for the Scout Jamboree.
Tell Kylee happy b'day for me. That's so crazy; she's growing up.
Oh yeah and my area is like a 40 min collectivo or bus ride away from the other missionaries in the zone, so once again we are kind of away from everyone. But at least I see them once a week. Well thanks for the letter. I hope all is well back home.
I tried to send pictures today but the computer wouldnt pick it up.
Yeah so we met President Avila and his family. He has 3 kids here with him. He doesn't speak English though. But he seems pretty good, I just got to meet him briefly and then he gave a talk on the plan of salvation, and related it to the mission.
Any who, I love you all. Thanks for the letter.
Oh and I picked up the package from the offices this week, and I'm not sure how long it was there. So, yeah I got it. It was 71 pesos to pick up. Thanks so much, the socks look way nice, and the gravies will be sweet. I'm way excited for the seasonings. Thanks for the candy and especially the hymn book, and shirt.
Love,
Elder Wharton
Elder Wharton
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